President Obama Speaks to Congress Tonight

High [Melo]drama on Capitol Hill

Will Malven
8/09/2009

Tonight President Obama will again address the nation and a joint session of Congress (as though he has something new to say). It is another in a series of speeches he has given in a futile effort to revive the flagging support for his health care plan…and his legacy. To date this strategy has been a net negative for him.

Expect him to once more talk about “myths and lies” being used to fight against his health care reform. He will again promise us that he has no intention of taking away our private health care and replacing it with a public system…although that is precisely what he wishes and the inevitable result of his agenda should it be adopted.

He will speak about the “death panels” dismissively, asking those who mention them to point out where those words appear in any of the proposed bills, knowing that though the specific words do not appear, the need for rationing will dictate their existence.

He will, once more, lie to us. His lies are most often lies of omission; he won’t tell us the entire truth, only enough to convince to join him in his fight against "injustice," most often in the form of those evil insurance companies who, "Gasp!" dare to make a profit.

Expect him to play the aggrieved soul. He will, no doubt, bring up the right’s reaction in anticipation of his speech to students across the nation, saying something to the effect of:

“See, all I wanted to do was to exhort the youth of America to strive towards success and conservatives reacted with claims of indoctrination and propaganda. There was no propaganda, just a positive message.”

Yet we were justified in our mistrust because we know Obama for who he truly is and we have observed those with whom he has surrounded himself (as he instructed us to do in order that we might judge him better). We know the liberal mind as well as we know our own.

We know that those on the left will be crowing about how unreasonable conservatives were to hold their children out of school while Obama was talking to them about continuing with their educations and persevering through adversity to better themselves…all the while knowing that, had those very same conservatives NOT said anything, their dire predictions which forced the President to change his speech would have been proven true.

Can we prove all of this…no, of course not…the speech, having been altered, cannot then be examined as it was originally, but since we know the minds of these liberals and the shameful way in which they play with the truth, we know our original assumptions were justified.

Thus we see the dangerous game conservatives are forced, by this president, to play.
If we anticipate and intercept his moves, then he and his advisors can alter their plans and then point their hypocritical fingers at us playing the injured, misjudged victim, wrongfully accused.

If we fail to intercede, then he succeeds in propagandizing our young people and further indoctrinating them into this culture of entitlement.

Expect him and his Democrat supporters to play Shakespeare’s Shylock to our Portia,

“…If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?…”

Expect him to play Tolkien’s Saruman to our Theoden,

”...Despite the injuries that have been done to me, in which [you] alas! have had some part, still I would save you, and deliver you from the ruin that draws nigh inevitable, if you ride upon this road which you have taken...”

Expect more of Gibbs with his “silly season” remark.

Expect that, caught with the canary’s feathers on their collective mouths, these Democrat cats, guilt free and unapologetic, will wipe the condemning evidence from their faces and smile gleefully as we are caught in their trap.

They ridicule our “unreasonableness” and our "paranoia;" they laugh at our caution and predictions…all the while knowing that we were correct.

No matter, we cannot relax our vigil. We must let them mock us, knowing we are right. We must persevere, trusting that the American people, who so clearly saw through the lies about the health care bill and showed up in large numbers, will remain as perceptive and see through Obama’s attempts to paint all of his opponents as “out of the mainstream.”

We were lectured when we complained, that President G.H.W. Bush gave a speech to school children during his term in office, so why are we so upset that President B. Hussein Obama is giving one? After all, isn’t it only fair that this "giant among men," this "messiah of the left" should be allowed to share his vision with those same young people? Isn’t it only reasonable?

What they fail to mention is that, unlike when President Bush 41 gave his speech, this time there will be no congressional committees investigating the president for having given his speech; no GAO estimates as to how much tax payer money President Obama spent in giving this speech. Both men had a Democrat Party in control of Congress, but only President Bush was subjected to scrutiny because of his speech.

So tonight expect the same lies and half-truths; expect an appeal to “reasonableness” and expect another lecture on the importance to America “that we solve this dire crisis facing us all.” President Obama will, no doubt, appeal to our humanity and our sense of fairness and charity to press his agenda, but never forget that his sort of charity comes at the point of an IRS auditor’s pen, not from the heart.

Remember also that the real sense of urgency coming from Obama is derived not from a sense of obligation to the American people, but a sense of his own floundering presidency needing a victory…and he will declare any bill a victory, no matter how far it strays from his original agenda.

Expect also that he will exhort his Democrat colleagues to go it alone if need be…much to his regret, I'm sure.

His message will be that the need for action is so dire that if necessary we Democrats must do for America what Republicans are unwilling to do.

Has there ever been a more cynical President in our 233 year history? I doubt it.

The only need in America the is dire right now is the need to stop President Obama in his drive to destroy our health care system in the same way that he and President Bush destroyed our economy and our automotive industry, through more government intrusion and control.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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